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Job Crafting

In: Work-Life Matters

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  • David Pendleton

    (Henley Centre for Leadership)

  • Peter Derbyshire
  • Chloe Hodgkinson

    (Edgecumbe Consulting Group Ltd)

Abstract

Job crafting provides a new mechanism employees can use to approach the exercise of balancing the elements of work which contribute to, and deplete, their energy. Elements are organised into three main categories that come together to form the constellation of employees’ lives at work: what they do (tasks), who they do it with (relationships) and why they do it (cognitions). By evaluating the extent to which these elements impact employees’ energy, they can review and re-craft their roles, from those which they have to do, to those which they love. The mechanism inverts traditional top-down approaches to job design, shifting the responsibility to employees and empowering them to take ownership of their roles. The job crafting process is a win-win for all, benefitting employees, teams and organisations alike! Research-proven outcomes include improved engagement, resilience, job satisfaction and person-job-fit to name just a few. This chapter deep dives into what job crafting really is, how it plays out in the workplace and why we must care about it.

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  • David Pendleton & Peter Derbyshire & Chloe Hodgkinson, 2021. "Job Crafting," Springer Books, in: Work-Life Matters, chapter 8, pages 105-124, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-77768-5_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77768-5_8
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